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...dessert, the Great Wall of Chocolate. In fact, as far as chefs go, the company says the less exposure to Chinese food, the better. "We've hired some Chinese chefs in the U.S., but we weren't successful because they had their own habits, and old habits are hard to break," says Roberto DeAngelis, P.F. Chang's director of international operations. "So we'd rather have someone new." (See why Chinese-American food is so different from the real thing...
Right, right right. It's hard to see what's going on in this picture. FlyBy only had the old camera phone handy. Anyway, a word of explanation: Harvard Alumni Association apparently has "Love Story" going in Tercentenary in honor of the University's brand new Homecoming event. And S'mores. Nothing like a bad movie and some snacks to swell the pride and usher in the weekend. Did we mention to the alumni that the University could use some donations? Enjoy the game tomorrow...
...upswing in recent months, the Boston-based National Consumer Law Center reported this week that many large banks and other mortgage servicers have decided it's cheaper to foreclose than to offer more affordable loan terms. Making matters even worse, as many as 86% of foreclosure victims in hard-hit areas didn't have legal counsel last year, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, which released a report earlier this month...
...those numbers don't draw more attorneys into foreclosure law, if only as a short-term specialty until the crisis subsides, homeowner advocates hope it will at least motivate some of them to shift more of their pro bono work in that direction. In hard-hit counties like Miami-Dade, bar associations are responding by holding foreclosure-defense clinics for local lawyers. Otherwise, the fear is that far more people than necessary stand to lose homes, possibly slowing economic recovery and clogging a civil-court system already ravaged by states' budget cuts. (See a video of people facing foreclosure...
Fortunately, while H1N1 virus has made people a lot of people sick, it hasn't been as deadly as many scientists had initially feared. Even in hard-hit communities, hospitals haven't been overwhelmed. In some parts of the country, the virus may even be waning. States in the Southeast, which experienced spikes in infection when students went back to school in August, are now seeing declines. But pandemics often come in multiple waves of infection, and we may see another spike later in the year, during the colder months of winter - and it could be more severe...